Okheena is often inspired by the facial expressions of children and the challenge of interpreting these and other human subjects in her work. She does not reproduce the traditional stories that she heard as a child, noting that she never heard the end of the bedtime stories because she fell asleep before the stories ended. Okheena has developed her own form of narrative storytelling. Her scenes with human figures are full of humour and movement, at times bursting from the bounds of the paper